Teachers in Rhode Island currently maintain their certification by showing evidence of continuous professional development. Creating a personal PD plan is a unit-wide assignment in the School of Education for all student teachers. The steps below are designed to guide you through this process so that we can complete it efficiently.
Complete the form based on one of the lessons you taught last week. Be sure to write down specific evidence from either your lesson plan or your memory of your enactment for each assessment you give.
Use a highlighter to identify areas of your teaching/lesson that were either below standard or that you feel needs improvement
Synthesize your review by completing the following table as best your can:
What is the need?
How will improvement help your students?
How will improvement help your school?
RIBT Standard/Element Addressed?
1.
Connection to other disciplines
Connecting information to other disciplines
will help students find the topic more
interesting and relatable to their own lives.
The more connections I can draw for students
the more they will have as a background for
understanding.
This will present a more cohesive
appearance of the school and curriculum.
The environment of the school would be
more harmonious.
RIBT 1.1, 1.2
2.
Taking advantage of multiple
opportunities to provide rich
explanation
Utilizing unplanned opportunities in a lesson
to enrich students understanding is crucial
because if they see or say something that
they think is completely unrelatable, but I can
find a way to adapt it, the topic will take on
much more meaning.
Taking opportunities that occur frequently
in school that may not seem like teachable
moments to students can again reinforce
the positive educational environment they
are in.
RIBT 2.5
3.
Develop questions/tasks to also
encompass students that are not as vocal.
Giving quieter students an equal opportunity
to understand the material is crucial to
maintaining a positive learning environment.
Improvement here will give all students a
voice and increase participation.
Improvement here will reinforce the idea
that students are an equal, and
homogenous body, all with the same
opportunities. It will alleviate stereotyping
and inequality.
RIBT 4.2, S.b
4.
Constant inquiry to allow students to
use and develop critical thinking skills
Although this was one of the few lessons
that did not include some type of above
and beyond critical thinking, there has to be
a way to incorporate it into all lessons. This
will keep students in a critical thinking mind
set at all times, preparing them for the real
world.
If all classes encorporated crucial
critical thinking skills, then we would be
providing the community with strong, and
able citizens to participate in the real
world effectively. Critical thinking is a
key skill necessary far beyond reasons
provided in high school
RIBT 5.1, 5.4, 5.5, D.a
Formulate a professional development goal based the needs that you have identified. This goal should be:
measurable/observable
should lead to improvement of teaching, student achievement, and/or improvement of learning environment.
should describe new knowledge or skills that you will acquire and how that knowledge/skill will affect the school/district setting.
linked to applicable Rhode Island Beginning Teacher Standards and elements, e.g. RIBTS 2.4.
In the space below, describe your professional development goal. In a second paragraph, use the information above to provide a rationale for your goal by explaining the personal need that it will address as well as how addressing this goal benefits your students and your school.
I. Professional Development Goal
My goal to incorporate more critical thinking into every activity is a crucial development. Having students always using critical analysis in the classroom will help them far beyond the reaches of Biology. It will help them when they see questions they do not quite understand, and will help them rationalize instead of simply memorizing facts. It will allow them to adapt and apply their knowledge, rather than gaining narrow vocabulary advances. I want to be able to facilitate this type of growth in my students. This will also help them in NECAP testing, which would be crucial.
Having students that can adapt and analyze will better their NECAP scores, and advance the school.
Now that you have a PD goal, think about what type of learning opportunities you will participate in to address your needs. Use these links to investigate learning options:
Based on what you have found out, write a 1-2 paragraph narrative outlining at least two ways (PD categories) you will engage in engage in by the end of your first year of teaching. For each activity, explain how you think it will address the need that you have identified.
EDC 484 Personal PD Plan
Teachers in Rhode Island currently maintain their certification by showing evidence of continuous professional development. Creating a personal PD plan is a unit-wide assignment in the School of Education for all student teachers. The steps below are designed to guide you through this process so that we can complete it efficiently.will help students find the topic more
interesting and relatable to their own lives.
The more connections I can draw for students
the more they will have as a background for
understanding.
appearance of the school and curriculum.
The environment of the school would be
more harmonious.
opportunities to provide rich
explanation
to enrich students understanding is crucial
because if they see or say something that
they think is completely unrelatable, but I can
find a way to adapt it, the topic will take on
much more meaning.
in school that may not seem like teachable
moments to students can again reinforce
the positive educational environment they
are in.
encompass students that are not as vocal.
to understand the material is crucial to
maintaining a positive learning environment.
Improvement here will give all students a
voice and increase participation.
that students are an equal, and
homogenous body, all with the same
opportunities. It will alleviate stereotyping
and inequality.
use and develop critical thinking skills
that did not include some type of above
and beyond critical thinking, there has to be
a way to incorporate it into all lessons. This
will keep students in a critical thinking mind
set at all times, preparing them for the real
world.
critical thinking skills, then we would be
providing the community with strong, and
able citizens to participate in the real
world effectively. Critical thinking is a
key skill necessary far beyond reasons
provided in high school
Formulate a professional development goal based the needs that you have identified. This goal should be:
In the space below, describe your professional development goal. In a second paragraph, use the information above to provide a rationale for your goal by explaining the personal need that it will address as well as how addressing this goal benefits your students and your school.
I. Professional Development Goal
My goal to incorporate more critical thinking into every activity is a crucial development. Having students always using critical analysis in the classroom will help them far beyond the reaches of Biology. It will help them when they see questions they do not quite understand, and will help them rationalize instead of simply memorizing facts. It will allow them to adapt and apply their knowledge, rather than gaining narrow vocabulary advances. I want to be able to facilitate this type of growth in my students. This will also help them in NECAP testing, which would be crucial.
Having students that can adapt and analyze will better their NECAP scores, and advance the school.
Based on what you have found out, write a 1-2 paragraph narrative outlining at least two ways (PD categories) you will engage in engage in by the end of your first year of teaching. For each activity, explain how you think it will address the need that you have identified.
II. Professional Development Plan